Oil-can.



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W. L. HUWLAND.

UIL CAN.

(Apmarm med Apr. s, 190m UNITED STATES PaTnNT @tripa WILLIAM L. HOVLAND, OF MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 679,123, dated July 23, 1901.

Application led April 5, 1901. Serial No. 54,452. (N0 mOdel-l To @ZZ whom, it may concern.-

Beit known that I, WILLIAM L. HOWLAND, a citizen of lthe United States, and a resident of Monmouth, in the county of Warren and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Oil-Can, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to an oil-can having certain novel pump devices by which the oil may be forced from the can in a steady ample stream.

The invention comprises other features, all ofwhich will be fully apparent from the following specification.

This specification is a specific description of several forms of the invention, while the claims are definitions ofthe actual scope thereof.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a sectional side View of the invention, and Figs. 2, 3, and 4; are sections of various modified forms of the spout.

a, indicates the oil-can, h the dischargespout, and c the pump-cylinder. This cylinder is set in the can preferably diagonally, as shown, and has a screw-capo closing its upper end. The lower end of the spout b is run into the lower portion of the cylinder and opens downward toward the bottom end or head thereof. The lower end of the cylinder is formed with an inlet-orifice c2A directly opposite the lower end of the spout or dischargepipe b. This orifice c2, as shown in Fig. l, is

commanded by a valve CZ, which is guided by a pin d, fastened to the cylinder and projected therein. The valve d is movable on this pin to seat against the lower end of the spout b and close the same or to seat over the oriiice c2 of the lower end of the pump-cylinder and close this orifice. The movements of the valve d are regulated by the duid-pressure in the pump-cylinder. As the piston moves downward it causes the valve d to seat over the opening o2 and close it. As the piston moves upward it draws the valve with it and causes the lower end of the spout b to be closed. The oil in the can iows freely into the cylinder and lies inthe cylinder at the same level that it lies in the can. As the pump-piston moves downward, therefore, it closes the opening c2 and forces the oil from the cylinder into and through the spout. When the movement of the piston is reversed, the valve seats against the spout and .an additional quantity of oil iiows into the pumpcylinder upon the retraction of the piston.

e represents the pump-piston, which may be-of any form desired. e is the piston-rod, having a handpiece at its upper end.

f indicates a spring which is attached to the piston e and coiled around the piston-rod. The upper end of this spring is passed out of the cylinder c through the two openings c3 in the upper part thereof and is thus engaged with the cylinder. This spring acts normally to raise the piston, and when the piston is forced downward against the spring npon the release of the piston the spring acts automatically to return it.

Now it will be observed that by removing the cap c oil may be poured into the can through the upper end of the cylinder and that the oil in passing into the cylinder will iiow out of the same through the openings c3, thus reaching the interior of the can. This enables me to ll the can without providing a special feed-oriiice.

In Figs. 2, 3, and 4 various modilications of the valve d are shown. Fig. 2 shows a hinged or elack valve d4, working between the spout and pump-cylinderin essentially the manner before described. Fig. 3 shows a ball-valve d2, operating as before described, and Fig. fi shows a plate-valve d3, which slides in the pump-cylinder to effect the necessary operations.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. The combination of a pump-cylinder having an inlet-orice in its lower end, a piston working in the cylinder, a discharge-tube passing through the lower side wall of the cylinder and projecting thereinto to a-point opposite and adjacent to the inlet-orifice, and a single valve situated between the inlet-oriiice and the discharge-tube and movable under the action of the piston to close either the cylinder-inlet or the discharge-pipe.

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2. The combination of a, pump cylinder having an inlet-orifice in its lower end, a piston Working in the cylinder, a discharge-tube passing through one side Wall of the cylindeil and projected adjacent to the inlet-oriioe, a guide-pin held in the cylinder and projecting from the inlet-orifice to the discharge-pipe, and zt valve mounted on and held by said guide-pin, the Valve being movable under` the action of the piston to close either the nlet- 1o orifice or the discharge-pipe.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

WILLIAM L. I-IOVVLAND.

Witnesses:

FRANK M. HALLAM, O. E. HALLAM. 

